Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
PETRARCHAnd men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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